Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley

Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by nerfhammer on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:24PM (#16998486)

Trump decides to excite his base and draw attention to himself by threatening to or actually banning immigrants from your country this week

difficult to plan for the future where this is a possibility

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by ng12 on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:34PM (#16998554)

Trump's actual rhetoric revolves around tougher controls on immigrant backgrounds and cracking down on those who immigrate illegally, neither of which policies are any less strict in Canada.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by nerfhammer on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:34PM (#16998969)

and people from Iran or Syria?

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by ng12 on Friday May 04, 2018 @07:32PM (#16999277)

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/01/iranian-immigrat...

Maybe Trump's mistake is being vocal about it while Canada maintains plausible deniability.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by slavik81 on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:49PM (#16999845)

I feel like I'm not getting the whole story here. You don't need a security clearance to become a permanent resident.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by aban on Friday May 04, 2018 @11:40PM (#17000203)

Security clearance not as in the kind that you need to work government jobs. Security clearance as in "basic" background checks.

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Re:Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Sil... by sheepmullet on Sunday May 06, 2018 @07:41AM (#17006069)

Spot on!

The Obama admin did the same thing. Sure it was technically possible to get a visa but in reality it was impractical and deliberately so.

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